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Destiny 2’s Season 23 started strong, featuring the new Warlord’s Ruin Dungeon and activities like The Coil. But beneath the surface, it’s possible Bungie and Destiny have received a blow that’s impossible to recover from. A new report from IGN’s Rebekah Valentine alleges that the situation only worsens for the remaining employees at Bungie. Morale and company culture seem like they’re taking a backseat, in order to avoid something as drastic as a complete Sony takeover. Following Bungie’s layoffs at the end of October,…

Google is no stranger to accessibility. The tech giant recently released the Lookout app, which uses AI to help users who are blind or have low vision navigate their surroundings. But now, Google is taking accessibility to the next level by upgrading the accessibility app. Google’s AI can now answer your questions about images Google updated its Lookout app to include an “image question and answer” feature that provides context for uncaptioned images (via Engadget). The feature uses DeepMind-developed AI to elaborate on…

Peering into the borehole of the operation to retrieve sediment and water samples from Mercer Lake. Credit: Kathy Kasic, Billy Collins Subglacial lakes that never see the light of day are among the least accessible frontiers of science, brimming with more tales yet untold than even the planets of our solar system. One thing seems certain: where there is water, there is life—even if said water is at the bottom of a frigid lake,…

You may have heard about an asteroid set to fly near Earth that is the size of 18 platypuses, or maybe the one that's the size of 33 armadillos, or even one the size of 22 tuna fish.These outlandish comparisons are the invention of Jerusalem Post journalist Aaron Reich (who bills himself as "creator of the giraffe metric"), but real astronomers sometimes measure celestial objects with units that are just as strange.The idea of a planet that's 85 percent the mass of Earth seems straightforward. But what about a…

Regional setting and ice history. (A) The Eastern Settlement of Southern Greenland. The inset shows the entirety of Greenland; dark gray depicts grounded ice cover at present, light gray is land, and white is ocean. Eight black stars show locations of the Viking sites considered herein and also Nanortalik, where Late Holocene relative sea-level data have been collected (11). B is Brattahlid, D is Dyrnaes, G is Gardar, H is Hvalsey, N is Narsaq, N2 is…

SINGAPORE—It wasn’t easy for Liu Jun to give money to an exiled Chinese businessman who had amassed hundreds of thousands of followers with tales of political intrigue in Beijing and promises of massive investment returns.The 53-year-old homemaker in Tokyo said she had to overcome the objections of her husband who tried to dissuade her from giving money to Guo Wengui, even threatening to divorce her if she went ahead. When Ms. Liu attempted to make a bank transfer to invest in one of Mr.…

Image via Warner Bros Despite Ezra Miller being an all-around bad person of late, it’s undeniable that our first look at the troubled star’s upcoming DCU film The Flash during this year’s Super Bowl got comic fans a little more than hyped, particularly for the return of Michael Keaton in his role as Batman. It seems that anyone who has managed to see a cut of the film before its release cannot help but heap praise on it either, which includes Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who was reduced to an…

A query string is a part of a URL that follows a question mark (?) and is used to pass data to a web page or application. It is typically composed of key-value pairs that are separated by an ampersand (&). The key represents the parameter and the value represents the data that is being passed through the parameter.In this article, we will discuss how to extract a query string from a URL using regular expressions.Approach:First, we need to define a regular expression pattern that will match the query string of a URL. A…

Deep Silver Volition has described the imminent Saints Row November update as being “a beast”. Saints Row, the reboot of the popular open-world action series which sees players starting up their very own criminal enterprise, launched on PC (via Epic Games Store), PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Google Stadia on August 23 this year. After the release where NME said the game “just isn’t all that good”, the head of Embracer Group admitted that the recent reboot didn’t meet his expectations but insists the series’…

DeFi has a language pet peeve. Aave’s general council has instructed not to use the word “platform” “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it” is the idea that your level of assurance can make an impact than your actual words. Although that might be the case in some circumstances, it isn’t the case when discussing ideas related to decentralized finance, or “DeFi.” The terminology we employ for DeFi must convey the key distinctions between the DeFi system and the traditional…